Hospital professor assaulted 11 medical residents over two years
By Chyung Eun-ju
These photos Rep. Yoo Eun-hye released at the National Assembly on Oct. 23 show leg bruising on one of the victimized students from the professor’s assaults. / Courtesy of Rep. Yoo Eun-hye
A Pusan National University Hospital professor assaulted 11 medical residents over two years, leaving victims with serious injuries, according to a National Assembly lawmaker on Monday.
The professor attacked the residents with surgical instruments, hit their shins 20 times, assaulted them on the streets and habitually punched their heads in 2014 and 2015.
Rep. Yoo Eun-hye from the Democratic Party of Korea released the information, but the aggressor’s name was withheld.
The victims’ bodies were covered with bruises that were shown in photos Rep. Yoo released. Some had ruptured eardrums.
The victims reported the professor’s violence in August and requested his dismissal. But the school only suspended the professor for three months.
“The hospital only asked the professor not to approach the students, while other professors tried to cover up the incident by meeting the victims and pressuring or appeasing them,” Rep. Yoo said.